CONTEXTS. Vll 



For cuts or bites — Barbarous treatment of bruised feet — Remedies for 

 rheumatism — Use of oatmeal as food — Manner of keeping it — Its 

 superiority to all other diet, even for labouring men — Manner of boil- 

 ing it — Carcases of horses which have died of disease to be avoided — 

 *' Graves" little better than poison — Insides of sheep form wholesome 

 diet — Bad carcases often purchased for the sake of the perquisites — • 

 No occasion for the whip at feeding hours — Ought to occupy at least 

 an hour p. 104 



CHAPTEE XVIII. 



•'Food should be proportioned to work," and regulated according to the 

 season — Tissues of the body exhausted by violent exercise — Illustra- 

 tions of mode of treatment, and making of the "puddings" — Neces- 

 sity of air and exercise — Walls of kennels to be frequently white- 

 washed — Means of preventing fleas, ticks, and dust — Proper kind of 

 straw to be used — Use of neatsfoot oil supei'seded by cleanliness — 

 Use of sulphur — Frequent brushing highly useful — Precautions to be 

 taken in washing dogs — The use of the warm bath after hunting 

 doubtful, as also the practice of swimming dogs in ponds and rivers — 

 Example of the latter — Causes and treatment of eruptive diseases — 

 Vacations and commencement of training season — Cub-hunting — An 

 anecdote — Number of hounds necessary p. 108 



CHArTER XIX. 



Bounding and education of young hounds — How to avoid their running 

 deer — Mr. Ward's practice — Severity not necessary — Good behaviour 

 of the author's own pack through a preserve — Exercise highly essen- 

 tial — Cub-hunting — -A noisy whipper-in of no use — Earth-stopping — 

 Wages to earth- stoppers in different parts of the country — Different 

 breeds of foxes in England, France, and Germany . . . . p. 115 



CHAPTER XX. 



On the duties, temper, and character of a huntsman — Mistakes of young 

 huntsmen — A really good pack of hounds will kill foxes by themselves 

 — Good whippers-in often make bad huntsmen — Laid up ill, and my 

 whipper-in turned huntsman — Field pleased at first — Soon wanted 

 my return — -The pack, on my resuming my place — Anecdote of John 

 Ward — A good receipt for a conceited whipper-in — Jack and the 

 Ghost p. 122 



CHAPTER XXI. 



The duties of a whipper-in as to earths — SecoAd whip ; youths too fond of 

 using it — How an old sportsman usually broke them in — The Pastor 

 and Farmer Coulter — Tom, my whipper-in — Patience required in a 



